About the “Astana EXPO-2017” project implementation progress

27 August 2013

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About the “Astana EXPO-2017”
project implementation progress

M.M. Tomanov,

Ph.D. in Economics,

Institute of Economics CS of the MES RK,

Almaty

The international community has chosen Kazakhstan as the “EXPO-2017” World exhibition venue.
Not many can be picked up for such honor. Suffice to say that our country has become the first on the whole
post-Soviet territory, who has been presided as a chairman in OSCE, conducted
the summit of this organization and will
hold the EXPO-2017 – the planetary scale event. The forthcoming EXPO-2017 exhibition
in Astana should give a a powerful boost to the country transfer on a “green”
development path. The superior world achievements of science and technology
will be presented in he capital. Many Kazakhstani will be able to see with one’s
own eyes the “energy of future”, to which we aspire.

On basis of EXPO-2017 the innovative clusters are formed, which in its
turn create the opportunities for the autonomous infrastructure formation. The autonomous
infrastructure in its turn proposes the creation of a powerful ICT infrastructure for the implementation of
the most “courageous” energetic and “green” projects.

In XXI century the urban environment condition is not predicated only
upon the infrastructure availability, i.e. physical resources. The smart city needs
the smart solutions, which provide the brand new development. The smart city is
a providing of a modern life quality at the expense of innovation technologies
application, which stipulate the cost-effective and ecofriendly use of the
urban life activity systems. The smart city is a smart management, smart
inhabitation, smart people, smart environment, smart economy, smart mobility. In
essence, the same goals, which Kazakhstan aspires to achieve by 2050 according
to the President’s Letter to Kazakhstan’ nation as of 14/12/2012.

At the present time the “Smart
city” automation system of recording and control allows to:

o Automatize
the recording and control of housing and public utilities resources;

o Tool up the
fire and security alarm and video surveillance systems;

o Organize the
dispatching work and lifting mechanisms control.

The principal ides of a “Smart city”
system is a creation of informational space, which contains the data on the
controlled facilities work (counter devices of the heat and electric energy,
elevators, electric facilities, engineered safety features, etc.). The facilities
management is carried out over al distances in real operation mode (regardless
of the facilities and a control center location in the city). The putting into operation
of a “Smart city” system will allow not only checking the equipment operation, but
accept the maximally correct managerial decisions.

The functionally complete
subsustems are the base for the “Smart system” single system:

o Dispatching
and control of elevators;

o Automated
commercial control and recording of energy resources and electric energy;

o Fire and
security alarm and video surveillance;

o Access
control to the premises and to facilities;

o Equipment
and engineering constructions control;

o other additional
systems, such as the control of basements flowage, alarm of the combustion
gases gaseousness, urgent voice communication, etc.

For the purposes of the Astana EXPO-2017 project implementation it is
necessary to take five steps:

1. To implement the advanced innovative technologies.

2. To create the innovative clusters within the Astana EXPO-2017
territory.

3. To provide the EXPO-2017 ground with the autonomous infrastructure
for the implementation of scientific and business projects

4. To transform the EXPO-2017 territory in to the powerful Central Asian
ICT hub.

5. The EXPO-2017 should become the parent base for the public-private
partnership.

In light of these provisions the adequate choice of location for the facilities
under construction, the scientific rationale of the most rational distribution
of novel technologies of sustainable development energy, from the standpoint of
its provision with the mobile, labor, material, natural resources and
achievement of a production top performance acquires the particular importance.
Therefore the development of innovative clusters on basis of the “Astana EXPO-2017” infrastructure as well
as the rendering of assistance to the creation of international platform in
Astana is necessary for our country. The creation of international platform will
confirm the seriousness of Kazakhstan’s
intention to the implementation of advanced
innovative technologies and render the practical support not only
to the country in whole, but in the process of trans-border problems solution.

In the end it may be concluded that the development of
innovative clusters, as the translator of novel technologies for centralized administration
appreciably improve the life quality, as well as the innovation ecosystem, which
promotes to the creation of a favorable climate for a free intercommunication
and scientific inquiry.

The advantages of innovations creation in the cluster-based
centers, which in the following may be used in other regions of our country, including
in the process of the “Smart Astana” (“Astana – the smart city”) project
implementation will be considered in the long view.

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Comments

Astana Expo 2017 is one of the innovative phenomena of the post-Soviet Kazakhstan's state building project. In my recent academic article entitled Nation-building projects through new capitals: from St. Petersburg to Yerevan and Astana (http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00905992.2016.1260535?journalCode=cnap20), I consider the expo as an important initiative to transform Astana into a Third Industrial Revolution city in which each of the buildings will become renewable energy generators. The term "Third Industrial Revolution" was coined by Jeremy Rifkin in his recent book "The Third Industrial Revolution; How Lateral Power is Transforming Energy, the Economy, and the World " where he focuses on new communication technologies and renewable electricity that can set up new fundamental economic changes in the world through transformation of all buildings into mini generation plants. The vision of Astana as the first Third Industrial Revolution city would be not only an innovative model for the entire region of Central Asian and the post-Soviet territory but would also create a certain system of relationships between modern science and the objects of its study. Among the indicators that determine the design of Astana Expo City is the cultural-national symbolic framework. Expo buildings in Astana are designed in accordance with the symbolic shapes of the ornaments of Kazakhstan's national emblem. The futuristic architecture of the city and ethnic-traditional and civic archetypes are keen to establish a link between defining the property of people’s identity e.g. past, present and future in defining the new civilizational identity of the Kazakhs.